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RIDGE POLE CONSTRUCTION Filed Nov. 17. 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented May 39, 1933 FATE RIDGE POLE CONSTRUCTION Application filed November 17, 1930. Serial No. 498,219.

in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings: Figure 1 shows in vertical transverse section, a building having a ridge pole constructat their upper ends.

ed in accordance with the invention;

Figure 2 is a perspective showing the ridge pole;

Figure 3 is a perspective showing a portion of the post;

Figure at is a perspective view showing a portion of the rafter;

Figure 5 is a perspective view showing how the rafters are mounted;

Figure 6 is an elevation disclosing a portion of one of the rafters.

The building comprises a frame 1 including top bars 15, and posts 26 having seats 56 The lower member of the ridge pole of the building is marked by the numeral 57. It is an inverted angle member received in the seats 56 of the posts 26. The rafters 58 are angle members, and their depending flanges 58a have notches 59 that receive the flanges of the lower member 57 of the ridge pole. The depending flanges 58a of the rafters 58 have rectangular notches 60 that receive the top bars 15.

The upper member 71 of the ridge pole is an angle member. The upper member 71 of the ridge pole, and the lower member 57 thereof, are connected by tightening devices 72, such as bolts, located at the apex of the part 71 The upper member 71 of the ridgel pole holds the rafters 58 engaged with the upper edges of the lower member 57 of the ridge pole, the upper ends of the rafters passing into the space 73 between members 57 and 71 of the ridge pole.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

In a device of the class described, a ridge pole made of an upwardly opening angle member, and a downwardly opening angle member, the downwardly opening angle member being disposed above the upwardly opening angle member, rafters in the form of angle members having transverse flanges engaged between the lower edge of the downwardly opening ridge pole member and the upper edge of the upwardly opening ridge pole member, the transverse flanges being provided along one edge with a downwardly extended flange, the downwardly extended flanges of the rafters having notches receiving one flange of the upwardly opening angle member, and a tightening device connecting the members of the ridge pole, to bind the rafters between them.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature.

JAMES A. WALKER. 

